Esquire magazine scribe: ‘Bill Hemmer needs to be cockpunched’

For those unfamiliar with the vernacular, a “cockpunch” is defined as a punch to the groin area. And for whatever reason, it is the sort of thing that Bill Hemmer, co-host of “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel, deserves — at least, according to Esquire magazine blogger Charles P. Pierce.

“There are some people who are just awful people who should be shunned by decent folk and shamed publicly until they slink out of my profession in shame, and the same thing should happen to people who defend them, and I’m looking at you, Jake Tapper,” Pierce wrote, referring to Tapper’s 2009 defense of Fox News as a legitimate news organization when the White House effectively declared it an entertainment channel.

Pierce goes on to call Hemmer a “soulless career climber” and digs up an old quote in which Hemmer compares Fox News to the New York Yankees.